For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos , O Heaven-born, Insewn Dionysus, after his untimely birth from Semele, was sewn into the thigh of Zeus. ;
 and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the
 thunder-lover. And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes ; but all these lie. The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote
 from men and secretly from white-armed Hera. There is a certain Nysa , a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far
 off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus 
 “and men will lay up for
 her sc. Semele. Zeus is here
 speaking. many offerings in her shrines. And as these things are three, The reference is apparently to something in the body of the
 hymn, now lost. so shall mortals ever sacrifice perfect hecatombs to you at your
 feasts each three years.” The Son of Cronos spoke and nodded with his dark brows. And the divine locks of the king
 flowed forward from his immortal head, and he made great Olympus reel. So spake wise Zeus and ordained it with a nod. Be favorable, O
 Insewn, Inspirer of frenzied women! we singers sing of you as we begin and as we end a
 strain, and none forgetting you may call holy song to mind. And so, farewell, Dionysus, Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone.